Haraka. I believe the WRIGHTS and their contribution made the airplane what it is today.
That silly little farman biplane didn't even have ailerons and slopped around a turn with rudder, ailerons were added after a full understanding of what the WRIGHTs had done with wing warping, warp drag and the rudder.
EVERY account of the French flights indicated the WRIGHTS were the masters of the air and others just sort of plodded around like a barn door with a prop on it.
I have it on semi good authority that SIMPLEX1 is actually a distant cousin of the wrights and only starts these dumb threads to feel important. Being a fish cutter isn't so much compared to INVENTING THE AIRPLANE>
AND to all the witnesses, the words they used would make sense to those of that time era. For example: "THE GAY DIVORCE`" play/film of the 1930's certainly wouldn't mean the same today, now would it?
ASSISTING a plane as it trundles down a wooden rail is like patting someone on the back today being considered holding up a doddering old man.
Simplex, go back to the fish. YOU AIN'T GOT THE WRIGHT STUFF